Mechanomicon: December 2017

Upper Fighting Machine (UFM)

[Mech Technology]

The UFM (Upper Fighting Machine or Ultraheavy Fighting Machine) is a subgroup belonging to the BFM category, standing for those Mechs whose tonnage is 105 or higher.

Although only 5 tons separates the UFM from the BFM, the complexity to create equipment modules for these new titans is so great that it highlights the difficulty the manufacturers face to increase the dimensions and displacement of the super Mechs.

There are a few modules suitable to equip both, BFM 100 tons and UFM 105 tons, but these are really exotic and rarely affordable except sometimes through the Mystery Vortex. Few elite pilots are able to equip more than one or two UFMs with Niodes modules, but there are some who consider this super class as the technological vanguard of the future.

GUARDIAN

Subcategory: Metaverse Supermechs
Release year: 3324
Tons: 105
Tech: Superniode (Cannot be replicated in our Galaxy)
Origin: The Alpha Metaverse (or Metaverse One)
Manufacturer: The Meta-Craftsmen.

WARDEN

Release year: 3337
Tons: 105
Tech: Superniode (Cannot be replicated in our Galaxy)
Manufacturer: Star Factories

REDEEMER

Release year: 3337
Tons: 105
Tech: Superniode (Cannot be replicated in our Galaxy)
Manufacturer: Multiverse Craftsmen

CAVALIER

Subcategory: Metaverse Supermechs
Release year: 3332
Tons: 105
Tech: Superniode (Cannot be replicated in our Galaxy)
Origin: The Beta Metaverse (or Second Metaverse)
Manufacturer: The Meta-Craftsmen.

TOWER

Release year: 3326
Tons: 105
Tech: Crystal
Designer: Gen. Nova
Manufacturer: NovaStar (Independent)

ARCLIGHT

Release year: 3328
Tons: 105
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Schwarzbär Collective - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

REVENANT

Release year: 3330
Tons: 105
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Most Esteemed Brotherhood of San Lorenzo (SoCP)

CHARON

Release year: 3333
Tons: 105
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)

KAMI

Release year: 3336
Tons: 105
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Cherry Blossom Mechworks (Sengakuji Reaches)

OPTIO

Release year: 3335
Tons: 105
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: House Strategoi - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

WENDIGO

Release year: 3365
Tons: 115
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Schwarzbär Collective - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

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Big Fighting Machine (BFM)

[Mech Technology]

This category encompasses all those Mechs with 90 to 100 tons. While technically the 105 ton Mechs are universally recognized as the top of the BFM, Mechanomicon has created for them the 'UFM' category (standing for Upper Fighting Mech).

Usually, a BFM Mech has a height above 9 meters, requiring the largest form of an icosahedral envelope rather than the tetrahedral envelope in a gateway.

The category name is said to have been assigned by the test pilots of the Jadoon, the first Mech belonging to this category, a crystal giant Mech of Forerunner technology, found on an anonymous planet during prospective mining activities by the Star Factories. The manufacturer soon began their study by reverse engineering and their subsequent production.

Apparently the exclamation of the test pilot was “What is this... Big Fucking Monster?”. The Engineer Team Director in charge of the project, quickly turned it into “Big Fighting Machine”. Despite the fix, many pilots and technicians like to keep using the original designation for BFM.

In the Mecha-warfare of the 34th century (3300s) there is not elite commander that were not leading an almost full BFM deploy in their squad.

JADOON

Release year: 3282
Tons: 90
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Most Esteemed Brotherhood of San Lorenzo (SoCP) / It is common belief that Star Factory produce this Mech, but in fact it is a creation of the Hermit Engineers.

ANTITHESIS

Release year: 3282
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Dr. Drake Novum
Manufacturer: Gothan Industrial - Oversight by the House of Aurelius (Hegemony)

IGNIS

Subcategory: Forerunner Mechs (aka Dinomechs)
Release year: 3285
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner Technology
Manufacturer: AlphCorp (Shogunate)

ASPIS

Subcategory: Forerunner Mechs (aka Dinomechs)
Release year: 3286
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner Technology
Manufacturer: House of Strategoi - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

REGIS

Subcategory: Forerunner Mechs (aka Dinomechs)
Release year: 3287
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner Technology
Manufacturer: House of Aurelius - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

MAGNUS

Release year: 3290
Tons: 90
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Rowe Incorporated (Clarke Federation)

BOREAS

Release year: 3291
Tons: 95
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)

YALLAN

Release year: 3291
Tons: 95
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Most Esteemed Brotherhood of San Lorenzo (SoCP) / It is common belief that Star Factory produce this Mech, but in fact it is a creation of the Hermit Engineers.

ANUBIS

Release year: 3294
Tons: 95
Tech: Niode
Original designers: Otto von Bismarck & Dr. Drake Novum
Manufacturer: Gothan Industrial - Oversight by the House of Aurelius (Hegemony)

GLACCUS

Release year: 3296
Tons: 95
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Schwarzbär Collective - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

CAMERON

Release year: 3334
Tons: 95
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

100 tons BFMs

At the release of the first 100 tons BFMs, the available gear was very poor as to make from the 100 toners really competitive Mechs, but with the course of time, this situation has drastically changed with the creation of extraordinary and optimized exclusive equipment modules to improve the structural capabilities and firepower. This situation repeated with the release of the 105 Tons UFMs, as the manufacturers started producing very poor equipment, turning it for most of the pilots a non viable Mech Class.

APATOTRON

Subcategory: Forerunner Mechs (aka Dinomechs)
Release year: 3300
Tons: 100
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner Technology
Manufacturer: House of Midha - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

TYPHOON

Release year: 3300
Tons: 100
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

FEXT

Release year: 3303
Tons: 100
Tech: Niode
Designer: Gen. Nova
Manufacturer: NovaStar Factories (Independent)

CORSAIR

Release year: 3308
Tons: 100
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Asgard Heavy, LTD. (Independent)

NOTOS

Release year: 3312
Tons: 100
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Novum Dolorum Industries (Illyrian Hegemony)

HUMBABA

Release year: 3314
Tons: 100
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: GDI & NovaStar Factories (Independents)

REAPER

Release year: 3316
Tons: 100
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Talbus Arms (SoCP)

BALROG

Release year: 3318
Tons: 100
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Rowe Incorporated (Clarke Federation)

SLATE

Release year: 3320
Tons: 100
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: GDI (Independent)

PIKE

Release year: 3320
Tons: 100
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)

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Huge Mechs

[Mech Technology]

This Mech Category encompasses all Mechs with a tonnage between 80 to 85 Tons.

The discovery in 3273 of the Gigus and Skriag was the beginning of the launching of this Mech category, which dominated the circuits and battlefields for a whole decade, experiencing its decline as kings with the discovery in Yomi of the first super Mechs produced in the past by the Forerunner and that would give way to the production of those known as BFM (Big 'Fighting' Mechs).

GIGUS

Subcategory: Serpentarius Brood (aka Living Mech and 'Kaiju' Mech)
Release year: 3273
Tons: 80
Tech: Crystal
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner's Foes Technology
Past manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)
Current manufacturer: Cherry Blossom Mechworks (Sengakuji Reaches)

SKRIAG

Subcategory: Serpentarius Brood (aka Living Mech and 'Kaiju' Mech)
Release year: 3273
Tons: 80
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner's Foes Technology
Past manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)
Current manufacturer: Cherry Blossom Mechworks (Sengakuji Reaches)

NAKSHI

Subcategory: Serpentarius Brood (aka Living Mech and 'Kaiju' Mech)
Release year: 3275
Tons: 80
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner's Foes Technology
Past manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)
Current manufacturer: Cherry Blossom Mechworks (Sengakuji Reaches)

FRIGIS

Release year: 3276
Tons: 80
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)

BALLISTA

Release year: 3277
Tons: 80
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Trinitarian Symposium (SoCP)

DREADNOUGHT

Release year: 3278
Tons: 85
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Consolidated Mecha (SoCP)

JOTTUN

Release year: 3278
Tons: 85
Tech: Crystal
Designer: Evil Santa Workshops
Manufacturer: Schwarzbär Collective - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

ONYX

Release year: 3318
Tons: 85
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Legionaries of Galactic Trade (SoCP)

TORRENT

Release year: 3280
Tons: 85
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)

HARRELL

Release year: 3280
Tons: 85
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)

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Heavy Mechs

[Mech Technology]

This Mech Category encompasses all Mechs with a tonnage between 55 to 75 Tons.

The Heavy Mechs started to be released in the 33th century (3201 to 3300) and brought a new age of high destruction to the battlefields, quickly replacing the Oggun, who until the release of a new series of heavy Mechs was the king of the circuits.

Some of the Heavy Mechs made history, as the formidable Smilodon, champion for several years in the circuits. Others as Sever and Dilophos made their niche in the dreams of all pilots, becoming a new standard among the elite.